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PEOPLE Vs. Catalino L. Quiming, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CATALINO QUIMING Y LOPEZ, HERMINIGILDO LAMIGO and ROBIN ESTOESTA, accused. ROBIN ESTOESTA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 92847 | 1993-05-21

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The issues in this case are the validity of the dismissal of a state witness and the credibility of his testimony. The trial court resolved both affirmatively, resulting in the conviction of the accused-appellant. He seeks reversal, claiming the decision is erroneous.

On May 28, 1983, two dead bodies were found on the shoulder of a road in Barangay Carmay, in Rosales, Pangasinan. They were sprayed with bullets. Autopsy revealed that the cause of death was "shock, irreversible, due to massive internal and external hemorrhage, due to gunshot wounds." 1 Sixteen empty shells were recovered near the corpses.

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